It’s original developers sold the site after they ran out of time and finances to keep he site going. Currently, the site is registered to b-swing inc. in Minneapolis.

I’ve also noticed that Firefox plugin is now available.

Sure, Jux2 can be used as a meta search tool (searching Google, Yahoo, and Ask Jeeves) but I like to use it as a comparison tool to quickly identify what one engine offers versus the others. With the tabs listed at the top of a results page you can easily identify the results that are unique to each engine (10 results at a time).

It would be very useful if Jux2 would also allow the searches to run comparisons looking at let’s say the first 50 or 100 results at a time. Also, how about adding MSN Search to the mix?

The Jux2 blog has more including why Jux2 was purchased but no company name is provided.

Welcome back, Jux2.

Postscript: The return of Jux2 also comes at a good time because from what we’ve learned from reader Dan G. and noticed ourselves, another comparison tool (that we like a lot), Ranking.thumbshots.com has not been functioning properly for more than two weeks. Thumbshots compared 100 results at a time in a graphical format. Chris wrote about it here. SearchDay has also offered a look at a Dogpile search results comparison tool and Danny has written positive comments about DoubleTrust.

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